"There is no such thing as a Scientific Mind. Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different th…"

"The similarity between them is not the taxonomic key to some other, deeper, affinity, and our recognizing its existen…"

"Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbabili…"

"If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minde…"

"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."

"Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, …"

"I could quote evidence of the beginnings of a whispering campaign against the virtues of clarity. A writer on structu…"

"The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitari…"

"Yet the greater part of it, I shall show, is nonsense, tricked out with a variety of metaphysical conceits, and its a…"

"The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our o…"